Leonid Lamm

Leonid Lamm is a Russian artist born in 1928. He was expelled from the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering in 1947, but graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1954. He was very involved in the nonconformist artistic circles in Russia and his work was deeply influenced by the avant-garde waves. Aside from exhibition work, he illustrated many books. He was sentenced to three years in prison for hooliganism in 1973, a part of which he served in a labor camp. He emigrated to the United States in 1982.